That’s awesome, Gertrude. Let us know how you like your standing desk!
Wow, how cool - I wish I could cut my desk in half and do that !
We sort of knew this already:
Stumbled on an interesting and thought provoking article on cholesterol. Still processing it.
http://www.drgangemi.com/2012/01/elevate-cholesterol-elevate-health/
Last week S and I hit the local running store’s spring tent sale! It’s our annual tradition to go together now (and I always treat him to a pair. 
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I picked up two pairs that felt marvelous on the first try:
These lovely hot pink Adidas Supernovas
http://www.sportsshoes.com/product/adi5710/adidas-supernova-sequence-6-women%27s-running-shoes/
And something similar to these - not sure of my model but the Nike always provides a bit of arch support that I like:
http://www.zappos.com/nike-zoom-fly-2-polar-aluminum-black
All set with runners for a little while!!!
@MichaelNKat, still reading the article, but this jumped out at me:
Of course, various scientists and others have been talking about this for awhile. However, the anti saturated fat spiel continues to be spouted. Just the other day, I saw an article front and center on AOL quote a nutritionist who said we want to limit our fats to a little olive oil, but mainly vegetable oils (and listed all those above) because “they are low in saturated fat!” I just wanted to bang my head against the table. It’s no wonder everyone remains in a constant state of confusion, with the proliferation of contradicting “facts” about what constitutes a healthy diet constantly assaulting us. It just boggles the mind.
Nice shoes, abasket!
My recent cholesterol numbers (fasting) were 262 total, which is high. LDL was 140 and HDL 108. I’m not worried.
These notions are very upsetting to a lot of doctors, and certainly for makers of statin drugs. There have been doctors/scientists/a rare nutritionist saying this for years, but their voices are drowned out by people who believe the contrary simply because that is what they were taught, going back decades. Perhaps it started with Ancel Keys, or maybe he was just the one that got all the press, but this notion that saturated fat and cholesterol are the enemy resulted in some big public health initiatives that have led to no reduction in diabetes, obesity, and heart attacks. In fact, all have worsened.
It’s very hard to convince people that it’s okay to eat fat that doesn’t come from a vegetable. Very hard.
M&K–Thanks for the link. I read a similar article about canola and cut it out of my diet–just use EVOO, butter, and coconut oil. My cholesterol went from 230s to 193. Ratio of LDL to HDL really good and triglycerides low. Doc was happy.
Workout on Monday–Pilates reformer and 3 mile walk outside. Pilates instructor
moved me to an intermediate class–we did a bunch of stuff standing on the reformer. Moves on reformer were much like what we do in yoga.
Today I workouted with my trainer–did lots of upper I’dy weight work. Finished with 30 minutes on elliptical machine. Humidity on the gym is crazy.
Spring is kicking my butt! Too much to do! A 30 minute run followed by 2 hours of heavy duty-wheelbarrow moving-shovel digging gardening. A pup walk to end the day and one bushed me!!!
“Today I workouted with my trainer…”
Grammarians be damned, I love the word - workouted! 
It sounds very much exercise-like. “Worked out” sounds like… doing some work. Nope. Exercise is fun. Yay!!
I hope that I will have some time to workout tonight!!!
I love that! It’s like how I run “mikes” instead of miles, according to my iPhone typing.
For whatever reason I couldn’t face my usual exercise routine this morning, so took the pups on a l-o-n-g walk instead. After a couple of days of lousy weather, the sunshine is a welcome change. We toured the neighborhood, checking on various renovation projects. She’s now sound asleep; I’m drinking coffee.
This evening, after a bunker clinic at the golf club, I’m off to my hometown in MA. Tomorrow I’ll help my father plant flowers at family gravestones in the local cemetery. He’s been doing this by himself for several years and it just dawned on me last month that he might like/enjoy/appreciate some help!
CBB- that’s funny. I couldn’t get out this morning, either! I was just flat tired and stayed in bed. It was a gorgeous morning, but I needed the rest. Will shoot for after work. Good for your doggies, though! My old doggie is sort of doing PT, and he can only walk about 100 yards- and that’s with rest breaks. We are getting him out a couple of times a day to try to build up his strength. HIs back legs just aren’t working right at all. He’s 125 pounds, so if he doesn’t want to go, we don’t go!
So sorry abut the doggie, MOWC. Sounds like my sister’s swiss mountain dog…when Juneau doesn’t want to go, you don’t go! The 25 minute runs are getting easier. Although I had the same, “maybe later” feeling as CBB and MOWC this morning, I decided to get on the damn treadmill and I’glad I did. Done for the day, though it’s beautiful…sunny and breezy…so I may take a walk later too. Unfortunately, tomorrow’s partners’ meeting is at my house, so no excuse to walk elsewhere. I think re-activating my WW account was a good idea too. Tracking my food is making me more conscious of what I eat, as always. It’s not like I don’t know what to do, it’s just doing it! Anyway, 1.9 down for the week, so feeling a little better about the whole thing.
Thanks. He’s a trooper.
Today is the one year anniversary of my NOT running after my 960 day streak which ended with my sacral stress fracture. I remember how lost and disappointed I felt on May 20- which was even before I knew I had the fracture.
Today (well, yesterday, since I haven’t run today) I’m at 214 days and 1010.1 miles in the streak.
Ooops, I realize I wrote “pups” above, which implies we have more than 1 dog. We don’t – although she’s crazy enough to be dogs, plural. I wrote “pups” because that’s how we refer to her – “the pups,” as in “Let’s go for a walk, pups” or “I’m taking the pups for a walk.”
Way to go on the streak MOWC. And congrats on the 1.9 lbs, runnersmom. There’s a 5 pound party in your near future!
Today was a 2 pups walk for me - I have Pilates tomorrow. I need new shoes so didn’t want to run 3 days in a row. Our local running store closed after 16+ years in business so I’ll be headed over the mountain this weekend. I’m rotating 2 pairs I like - of course I have four other pairs I could wear but I don’t like them nearly as much!
I had a good 5 mile run last night after work. I think most of what I can do as far as shoveling/hauling rock on our patio project is done, thank goodness. Tonight is running club, so I should get another 5 mile run in.
MOWC-sorry for the bad anniversary day today with the end of your amazing streak. It’s very remarkable that you healed as well as you did and are so far into a new streak. I’m sure you’ll get your mileage in tonight to keep the new streak alive!
Gertrude-I hope your hip is doing better.
runnersmom-congrats on the weight loss! There’s nothing like tracking your food to make accountability happen!
I have been tracking my food religiously (obsessively) for the past 18 months. In July I will have been at or below my goal weight (which is on the low end of the healthy weight range) for a year. I’m considering stopping tracking at that point; in some ways I feel as if I’ve let food tracking and the Fitbit step count become an obsession. I would like to think that I can maintain my current weight and healthy fitness level without the daily tracking. Not sure if I would actually have the guts to stop.
Oh, MOfWC… Those big doggies… Ours was only 110 lb, but when he needed rehab after his spinal surgery, it took us both to walk him. Mr. was holding the dog’s rear suspended in the special sling, and I was stirring the “ship.”
runnersmom, congrats.
Planned a short hike for tonight. We’ll see if it actually happens.